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Christine M. Friedenreich

Christine M. Friedenreich

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Medicine

D-Index
106
Citations
52474
World Ranking
6416
National Ranking
251

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Christine M. Friedenreich is affiliated with Alberta Health Services in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Their work intersects several important health topics including cancer survivorship and care, physical activity and health, cancer risks and factors, nutrition and health in aging, endometrial and cervical cancer treatments, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as the quality of life of childhood cancer survivors.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Physical activity, obesity and sedentary behavior in cancer etiology: epidemiologic evidence and biologic mechanisms (2020), Molecular Oncology
  • World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour (2020), British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Physical inactivity and non-communicable disease burden in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries (2021), British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: broadening the behavioural targets (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Frequent co-authors in Friedenreich's publications include:

  • Kerry S. Courneya
  • Lin Yang
  • Jessica McNeil
  • Linda S. Cook
  • Margaret L. McNeely

Their research has been published in a variety of journals with multiple contributions to the following venues:

  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Causes & Control
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

The main research fields covered by Christine M. Friedenreich emphasize medicine, with a significant concentration in oncology and related biomedical and public health domains.

Among their research topics, the scientist has contributed substantially to understanding:

  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Christine M. Friedenreich was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019 within the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Fiona C. Bull;Salih S. Al-Ansari;Stuart Biddle;Katja Borodulin

  • Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Exercise in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Kerry S. Courneya;Roanne J. Segal;John R. Mackey;Karen Gelmon

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Physical Activity, Biomarkers, and Disease Outcomes in Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review

    Rachel Ballard-Barbash;Christine M. Friedenreich;Kerry S. Courneya;Sameer M. Siddiqi

  • Physical Activity and Cancer Prevention: Etiologic Evidence and Biological Mechanisms

    Christine M. Friedenreich;Marla R. Orenstein

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Traditional reviews, meta-analyses and pooled analyses in epidemiology.

    Maria Blettner;Willi Sauerbrei;Brigitte Schlehofer;Thomas Scheuchenpflug

  • Body Size and Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Tobias Pischon;Petra H. Lahmann;Heiner Boeing;Christine Friedenreich

  • Physical Activity in Cancer Prevention and Survival: A Systematic Review.

    Anne McTiernan;Christine M. Friedenreich;Peter T. Katzmarzyk;Kenneth E. Powell

  • State of the epidemiological evidence on physical activity and cancer prevention

    Christine M. Friedenreich;Christine M. Friedenreich;Heather K. Neilson;Brigid M. Lynch

  • American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable Report on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Cancer Prevention and Control.

    Alpa V Patel;Christine M Friedenreich;Steven C Moore;Sandra C Hayes

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Physical exercise and quality of life following cancer diagnosis: a literature review.

    Kerry S. Courneya;Christine M. Friedenreich

  • Physical Activity and Cancer Prevention: From Observational to Intervention Research

    Christine M. Friedenreich

  • Physical activity and breast cancer risk: impact of timing, type and dose of activity and population subgroup effects

    Christine M Friedenreich;Anne E Cust

  • A randomized trial of exercise and quality of life in colorectal cancer survivors.

    K. S. Courneya;C. M. Friedenreich;H. A. Quinney;A. L. A. Fields

  • Physical inactivity and non-communicable disease burden in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries.

    Peter T Katzmarzyk;Christine Friedenreich;Eric J Shiroma;I-Min Lee

  • Review of anthropometric factors and breast cancer risk

    C M Friedenreich

  • Randomized controlled trial of the effects of aerobic exercise on physical functioning and quality of life in lymphoma patients

    Kerry S. Courneya;Christopher M. Sellar;Clare Stevinson;Margaret L. McNeely

  • The group psychotherapy and home-based physical exercise (group-hope) trial in cancer survivors: physical fitness and quality of life outcomes.

    Kerry S. Courneya;Christine M. Friedenreich;Rami A. Sela;H. Arthur Quinney

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry S. Courneya
Kerry S. Courneya University of Alberta
John R. Mackey
John R. Mackey University of Alberta
Immaculata De Vivo
Immaculata De Vivo Harvard University
Stephen D. Walter
Stephen D. Walter McMaster University
Yutaka Yasui
Yutaka Yasui St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Karen A. Gelmon
Karen A. Gelmon University of British Columbia
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Gavin R. McCormack
Gavin R. McCormack University of Calgary
Lingeng Lu
Lingeng Lu Yale University
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

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